Mark Anderson & The Common Core

We teachers are pats of butter skittering across a hot skillet every time the Common Core comes up these days. From the distaste of the Badass Teacher’s Association and their Luddite response to the CCSS, to the uproar over Tony Bennett’s recent political mishap, The CCSS is becoming a bucket to kick and that needs to stop. The standards are high quality. They are also young and unproven. But that doesn’t mean that they’re not worth the necessary rigor to implement and to do so well.